Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

In War, Liberty, and Caesar, Edward Paleit discusses how readers and writers of the English Renaissance read and understood Lucan's (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, c.

This book provides an expansive view of celebrity's intimate dimensions.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Diderot - Entoptische Farben" verfügbar.

In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia.

Julius Caesar presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen.

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity.

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing.

This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald's 1727 adaptation of the "e;lost"e; play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare.

Miguel da Silva entführt Sie auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die Welt von Miguel de Cervantes und seinem unsterblichen Werk, Don Quixote.

Das Goethe-Jahrbuch, Publikationsorgan der internationalen Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar, bietet Abhandlungen, Miszellen, Rezensionen, Berichte aus dem Leben der Goethe-Gesellschaft und eine jährliche Goethe-Bibliographie.

A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new.

Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett.

Dieses Buch rekonstruiert erstmals die faszinierende Geschichte einer Reihe fiktiver Totengespräche, die zwischen 1729 und 1734 – anonym oder unter Pseudonym und sämtlich als Flugschriften veröffentlicht – in Deutschland erschienenen sind.

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Part of a series which follows the outline of writers' working lives, aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing.

This book investigates intersections between the philosophy of nature and Hellenism in British and German Romanticism, focusing primarily on five central literary/philosophical figures: Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Holderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.

Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary texts.

Coleridge has been perceived as the youthful author of a few brilliant poems.

A collection of pedagogical essays that presents proven strategies for the teaching of adaptation and eighteenth-century textsThe eighteenth century was a golden age of adaptation: classical epics were adapted to contemporaneous mock-epics, life writing to novels, novels to plays, and unauthorized sequels abounded.

Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare's stage is a study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political.

Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and touring productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK.

How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original?

Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment.

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest.

Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists.

Weimar in seiner Glanzzeit.

James Macphersons Ossian zählt im späten 18.